Russian agents recruited members of three U.S. political groups to spread propaganda and interfere with elections, federal prosecutors allege. A new indictment, unsealed Tuesday, accuses four Americans and three Russian nationals of an effort to act as unregistered foreign agents…[Continue Reading...]
SALT LAKE CITY — For years Utah has been plagued with rumors of missing children linked to the religious extremist Warren Jeffs of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS). “They’re disappearing. They turn up missing. When you ask the…[Continue Reading...]
Corporal punishment, specifically whipping, has been systemically used by followers of the Jehovah’s Witnesses religious group against their children in Japan, a survey showed Tuesday. Submitting the results of the survey to the welfare ministry, a group of children of…[Continue Reading...]
The selection of a new jury is underway in downtown Los Angeles in Danny Masterson’s upcoming retrial on charges that he forcibly raped three women — fellow Scientologists who say they were attacked in the early 2000s and one accuser…[Continue Reading...]
About a month after authorities found Lori Vallow’s long-missing children buried in the backyard of her apocalyptic author husband’s Idaho backyard, her eldest son finally decided to call her in jail to get some answers. “Do you think you can…[Continue Reading...]
The International Society of Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), commonly called the Hare Krishna movement, founded by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, is embroiled in yet another scandal concerning the sexual abuse of hundreds of children at its schools in the movement’s…[Continue Reading...]
“That ’70s Show” actor Danny Masterson is back on trial again. The new trial began on Monday morning with jury selection in downtown Los Angeles, after the jury in Masterson’s first trial last year failed to reach an unanimous verdict,…[Continue Reading...]
The Mormon religion was a movement that took its followers from east to west in the middle of the 19th Century, including a strong presence in Illinois before ending up in the Utah territory. But a power vacuum caused a…[Continue Reading...]
MADISON, Wis. -- The defrocked Roman Catholic cardinal who became the face of the church's clergy sex abuse crisis has been charged in Wisconsin with sexually assaulting an 18-year-old man more than 45 years ago, court records show. A criminal…[Continue Reading...]
Lori Vallow Daybell, 49, is currently on trial, accused of murdering her two children Joshua "J.J." Vallow, 7, and Tylee Ryan, 16. She is also charged with conspiracy to commit first-degree murder in the death of her fifth husband Chad…[Continue Reading...]
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